Polish Hussar
Alexander Ossipovich Orlovsky (Warschau 1777 - St. Petersburg 1832), attr.
Lot-No. 405
Proceeds : 2.000 €
Oil/canvas, 39 x 30 cm, some rest., relined. - Provenance: Private collection Copenhagen 1911; private collection Sweden. - Polish painter. O. learned painting from J. P. Norblin in Warsaw. He participated in the Polish uprising against Russia in 1794 and found a patron in J. Poniatowski. In 1801 he settled in St. Petersburg and became a member of the Academy there in 1809. Mus.: St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Warsaw (Nat. Mus.), Bremen, Riga a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker.
Alexander Ossipovich Orlovsky: Polish Hussar
Alexander Ossipovich Orlovsky (Warschau 1777 - St. Petersburg 1832), attr.
Polish Hussar
Lot-No. 405
Proceeds : 2.000 €
Oil/canvas, 39 x 30 cm, some rest., relined. - Provenance: Private collection Copenhagen 1911; private collection Sweden. - Polish painter. O. learned painting from J. P. Norblin in Warsaw. He participated in the Polish uprising against Russia in 1794 and found a patron in J. Poniatowski. In 1801 he settled in St. Petersburg and became a member of the Academy there in 1809. Mus.: St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Warsaw (Nat. Mus.), Bremen, Riga a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker.
